Obama declares 'national emergency' for action on jobs plan

RALEIGH, N.C. — President Barack Obama opened the sixth day of his jobs push Wednesday with a campaign-style rally at North Carolina State University, saying the country is in the midst of a “national emergency” that requires Congress to act swiftly on his $447 billion plan.

Against the backdrop of more negative poll numbers and two special-election losses for Democrats, Obama called on thousands of college students assembled in the steamy Reynolds Coliseum to mobilize behind the plan, a mix of tax cuts and government spending on infrastructure, jobs programs and construction projects.

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The 26-minute speech before a crowd of more than 9,000 echoed his remarks in previous days, with a slightly sharper critique of congressional Republicans for suggesting that they don’t want to give Obama a political “win” and pass his proposal.

“I get fed up with that kind of game plan, and we’ve been seeing it for too long. Too long,” Obama said. “We’re in a national emergency. We’ve been grappling with a crisis for three years, and instead of getting folks to rise up above partisanship in a spirit that says we’re all in this together, we got folks who are purposely dividing, purposely thinking just in terms of how does this play out just in terms of this election.”

Like a traveling salesman, Obama stood at a podium and held up a copy of the 155-page American Jobs Act, ticking off state-specific data on how the bill would benefit North Carolinians: 19,000 construction workers could get jobs, 153 structurally deficient bridges could be repaired, and the typical family could see a $1,300 tax cut.

“Tell your Congress person that the time for partisanship and politics is over,” Obama said.

“The time for action is now,” he added. “If you want to create jobs, pass this bill.”

The trip coincided with a grim new poll, special election losses in Nevada and New York and a burgeoning investigation on Capitol Hill over a federal clean-energy loan.

As Obama headed south to North Carolina, lawmakers were opening a hearing into the administration’s apparent rush to approve a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, a California firm that later folded, despite evidence that the company had been on shaky financial ground.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that the administration had acted appropriately and is cooperating with investigators.

Carney said the two election losses in Nevada and New York should not be interpreted as a referendum on Obama.

“Special elections are often unique and their outcomes don’t tell you very much about future regularly scheduled elections,” Carney said. “You can make those predictions and look foolish in 14 months or not. I’m simply saying we do not view it that way (as a referendum).”

A new survey underscored Obama’s challenge in selling his plan. The Bloomberg National Poll found that a majority of voters don’t believe the American Jobs Act will lower the unemployment rate, a downbeat assessment that reflects public skepticism about Washington’s ability to reverse the economic decline.

“I think that means half the American people based on that poll believe it will help create jobs and grow the economy,” Carney said. “We are not done pressing Congress and reaching to the American people.”

Government economists are the problem. Remember "Cash for Clunkers"? The government paid big money to people to permanently disable perfectly serviceable vehicles (during a recession, no less). Taking that many used cars off the market hurt the less well off who wanted to buy those cars. It is only a matter of time until they have us tearing down our houses to keep prices up (they are already testing this in Detroit). And subsidizing corn based ethanol used up crop land so we could burn our food. So, we will burn our food, tear down our houses, and junk our cars. What does a government economist think if he sees a hungry family living in a junk car? The policy works?

Most certainly. Obama is stuck in his glory days of smoking pot, snorting coke and flimflamming ignorant people into doing his dirty work. During his stoned community agitator glory days Obama only succeeded in creating slums and misery. This is what he is accomplishing today, as well.

Obama enjoyed success at fooling ignorant people back then and, today, he believes his slick talking will still dupe people. Obama is so arrogant he still thinks he can control people with words. Rather clear his con job approach is not fooling intelligent Americans.

If it is such a DIRE emergency, why hasn't the bill even been introduced into congress, as of Wednesday afternoon? He threw his little tantrum last friday, held up a copy(or something that was suppossed to be a bill) and has mouthed off about it for a week, yet not one Democrat in congress has submitted the bill? That doesn't sound like a national emergency type of urgency to me.......

IF it is a national emergency it's because Obama ignored it since becoming President. When this tinpot dictator uses the words National Emergency all Americans should be very afraid. He'll be sending out his Union Thug Storm Troopers next!!!

Ibegtodiffer writes, "I do not like the use of the term 'National Emergency'...."

Upon reading Obama declaring a national emergency, instantly "national martial law" lept into my mind. I entertained a notion of writing about a possibility of Obama declaring martial law to have his way. I decided this is too far fetched, this would never happen, I would read to be a kook to suggest Obama would use martial law to control us.

This will never happen, our law enforcement girls and boys, our military, our elected leaders would never go along with imposing martial law upon America. This is simply impossible. Nonetheless, I would not be surprised to learn Obama has silently considered martial law to force his socialist agenda upon our nation, as crazy as this reads.

However, there is a possibility of nationwide civil unrest if our economic dire straights worsen or continue into next year. My sense of things is Americans are really angry and ready to take to the streets by the millions. This anger is driven by desperation. This is a very dangerous cocktail mix. My concern is a seemingly insignificant event could spark nationwide civil unrest. Obama could ignite fierce fires of protest across our nation with just the wrong words or a wrong action. Obama is known for making a lot of really stupid mistakes.

Civil unrest here in our home, America, could lead to declaration of martial law in some urban areas which might spread to nationwide martial law. Still, this is impossible to imagine our police and military pointing rifles at Americans.

How many times willl Obama "cry WOLF" til NObody believes a word he says? He has demeaned the Medal of Honor by using it as a photo op prop. He called a Joint Session of Congress to kick off talking points for his jobs plan. (Hello? Let's leave it to the Supercommittee. Afterall, Obama has already ignored the Simpson-Bowles recommendations, the Paul Ryan plan, and several other plans passed by the House, and now he is just polically stepping ahead of Congress without allowing time for responsible actions.) And now, his jobs plan/stimulus is a "national emergency"? Grow up, little boy. Or CRY "WOLF" and watch the US and the world ignore Obama.

Rollback and riscind your job crushing federal legislation Obama! Dissolve your duplicated federal dpartments. Get your heel and boot off the neck of energy and petrolem produuction, so citizens can have fuels to bulld jobs and work. Stop your propaganda campaigns and the spending of our money indebting all Americans. What you are currently doing is un-American,defeating, and has no merit, only pain for everybody. Do something real to provide a business climate in the United States. Rising t axes is out of the question. So far Obama, nothing you do is helpful, rather in fact, your policies are the root cause of what is the reason our economy is shut down.

BULLETIN: Bloomberg.com reported on Wednesday that Americans have not only given a rousing thumbs-down to Obama’s “Job Act” but thumbed their noses at the president because of it.

As if President Barack Hussein Obama were foretelling the future at the same time he was serving up an object lesson on how he believes Americans should solemnify the memory of September 11th, 2001 by a “day of service,” he slapped up vittles in a soup kitchen on 9/11.

Most Americans disregarded, if they didn’t ridicule, his asinine idea of substituting public service in lieu of solemnity on 9/11 but they will be hard pressed to dismiss the image of soup kitchens in our future, especially in view of reports of spreading poverty and in light of the president’s lackluster performance in so-called “jobs speech” last Thursday.

Obama’s screwing up history, as in saying Lincoln “founded” the Republican Party and his gaffe-ing his way through his presidency have been more than adequately covered up by his mainstream media. (http://bit.ly/qKFXDP)

It will be far more challenging for Obama’s MSM to provide cover for an entire speech which was essentially an hour-long whine indirectly *****ing at Republicans for their intransigence in favor of preserving the Republic and avoiding national bankruptcy instead of burdening the taxpayers, their children, and grandkids with another boondoggle.

With his trillion dollar 2009 unstimulating stimulus an abject failure in putting Americans back to work, Obama’s economic wizards devised another sure-fire scheme, the piddling Son of Stimulus, a $447 billion plan incorporating many of the unpalatable elements of the original failure, features previously rejected even by Obama’s own Democrats.

This time around, the Anointed One left his ointments home and didn’t emulate Bartles and James by politely thanking Congress in advance for its support. Instead, almost churlishly, he repeatedly demanded the Congress pass the new waste now, at once, two weeks ago, if possible.

In various forms, he reiterated his demand at least 17 times, apparently fearing that if congresspeople read it before passing it, they may not like it and forgetting that he isn’t an emperor and that the legislative branch is co-equal with the executive.

All but stamping his foot, whining of the consequences of non-passage and touting the improbable benefits, Obama resembled more an petulent child than a president. My four year old grandson would be sent to time-out or, preferably, to his bed, for such infantile conduct.

To his credit, the president didn’t repeat his “shovel-ready” lie; many of his brand new shovels won’t be shovelling until 2013, coincidentally after Election Day 2012.

Early on in his unprecedented second address to a joint session of Congress and the American people within less than 32 months–this president obviously craves attention as much as my grandson–Obama declared his “Jobs Act” would be fully “paid for,” as opposed to Obamacare, for instance. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1... />

Obama administration officials defend a $528 million loan to Solyndra's solar energy project after emails reveal officials had solvency concerns months before the loan was approved — the firm, which the president visited in 2010, filed for bankruptcy this month

A Democratic senator today urged President Barack Obama to use U.S. trade laws to restrict surging imports of solar panels from China in a sign that high U.S. unemployment is increasing trade tensions.

Chinese imports of solar panels are surging and are on pace to increase 240 percent this year, compared to 2010," Wyden said. "Furthermore, imports of Chinese solar panels increased 1,593 percent between 2006 and 2010."

The Oregon Democrat said the Obama administration has "ample tools" to restrict the imports, including possible anti-dumping or countervailing duties.

The administration should have put tools in place ot restrict the imports of solar panels if they are bailing out the Solar company. first put a tariff on on China solar panels then give the bail out money to the company....besides they knew the company was in trouble already...There were signs....this is prove again that the bureaucrats in Washington are scared of China....don't know what to do with bail outs.....Vote them out of office before it is to late for us.

For three years he didn't give a damn about working people's jobs except for his union buddies and the public sector but now all of a sudden it is a "national energency" because this snot nosed SOB's job is on the line and he knows he is going to loose it and he and Moochie are going to have to pay for their own lavish trips pretty soon. After his disgraceful actions on Sept. 11th I don't know how he can even show his face in public.